💿Few things bring as much joy as rescuing musical treasures from the thrift store and adding them to my collection. My daughter, who has never known life without internet, views my CD ripping like I’m a doomsday prepper.

@gregmoore That is an interesting viewpoint. 🤓

@gregmoore @jasonmcfadden Not paranoid at all. Between the unreliable nature of internet-dependent software and the desire to actually listen to your music as instantly as our super computers allow, it makes all of the sense in the world to me.

I now think of streaming services as additive to files and physical media, not as a replacement.

@gregmoore what external CD drive are you using?

@SimonWoods @gregmoore Likewise; I’m increasingly concerned with siloing my files in proprietary apps/services/clouds. Ex: Apple Photos with HEIC/HEIF images inside a packaged container. I at least want my jpegs in folders I can manage. I’ve set to download originals on my Mac.

@SimonWoods so this is a correct decision.

@SimonWoods I have the same view: any data that isn't on something I can physically access is "other people's data" that they can take away at any time.

@mindofaaronw Just an inexpensive external USB-C drive from Amazon.

@JohnPhilpin LOL, yes you are doing the right thing.

@gregmoore Good work!

@gregmoore Amen. Most of the talk about "owning your data" while they're online is nonsense.

@gregmoore this is the way

@jasonekratz Thanks for that correction; I wasn’t aware. Also, I found the same about the Photos library package with originals. Glad that’s there. I checked, too, and Lightoom supports HEIF.

@gregmoore I’ve been picking up a few CDs lately. Even bought a secondhand CD player.